Cool, but not alive. Life needs to exist in a discrete organism that makes perfect or near perfect copies of itself out of feedstock found in the environment. Cracking and swirling and reforming in different bodies doesn't fit the definition.

Tommy Moo:Cool, but not alive. Life needs to exist in a discrete organism that makes perfect or near perfect copies of itself out of feedstock found in the environment. Cracking and swirling and reforming in different bodies doesn't fit the definition.